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St Ives Book Jam ( 18th May)
Marta Altes, Jenni Desmond and I have spent the whole day drawing with children and signing our books! It was a lovely experience!
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This was my donation to the 19th Annual Children's Book Art Silent Auction in New York (to support the free speech rights of young readers). http://abffesilentauction.wordpress.com/
(a black and white drawing from my first picture book The New Arrival )
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I am excited to announce my very first authored and illustrated picture book will be published in early spring 2013.
The New Arrival could be pre-ordered on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Arrival-The-Vanya-Nastanlieva/dp/1927018137
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I illustrated a picture book in German,which was published this summer.
Raccoon Celebrates Birthday on Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Vanya%20Nastanlieva&search-alias=books-uk
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My illustrations made it to the top twenty entries of The Book Illustration Competition 2012: The Bloody Chamber, http://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/
The Bloody Chamber
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"Tayori - Postcards for Japan"
An exhibition by Children's Book Illustrators and Children's Book Illustration MA students in aid of Teachers
for Japan. You will find more information here: http://www.postcardsforjapan.co.uk/
My post cards:
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Highly commended at the Macmillan Prize

One of my picture books 'Mo and Beau' has been highly commended at this years' Macmillan Student Competition. It was just after my birthday so THANK YOU Macmillan for the lovely birthday present!
The exhibition of winners and highly commended entries will be at Foyles Gallery (in the third floor of the bookshop), Charing Cross Road (London). From the 23rd till the 27th of May..
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Exhibition in Cambridge
http://issuu.com/alss/docs/ma_childrens_book_illustration_show_2011
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Exhibition in London